POCATELLO — The Pocatello police union says the Police Department offered the highest officer salaries in the state not long ago.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Climate change in the Western U.S. means more intense and frequent wildfires churning out waves of smoke that scientists say will sweep across the continent to affect tens of millions of people and cause a spike in premature deaths.
On Monday, June 24, 2019, at 5:42 p.m., the Idaho State Police investigated a single-vehicle fatality crash northbound on US Highway 91 at milepost 3.1, south of Preston.
NEW YORK (AP) — Don't envy NBC News executive Rashida Jones, who is behind this week's inaugural Democratic presidential debate and will have to juggle 20 candidates, five news personalities and, it's likely, one tweeting president.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says the new U.S. sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic's supreme leader and other top officials mean the "permanent closure" of diplomacy between Tehran and Washington.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — The Milwaukee Bucks fell two games short of the NBA Finals.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A recently adopted puppy that disappeared after her owner crashed in Arizona survived 13 days in the mountains and has been reunited with her owner.
SALT LAKE CITY — The mystery of what happened to a University of Utah student who vanished nearly a week ago remains as puzzling as it is scary.
IDAHO FALLS — An Idaho Falls man has been arrested for allegedly murdering his girlfriend.
A fundraiser established on Facebook for a 26-year-old American Falls woman who was killed June 14 from injuries sustained in a car accident was $1,196 toward a $6,000 goal on Monday afternoon.
CHUBBUCK — Seeking to make a historically dangerous intersection safer, officials with the city of Chubbuck and the Idaho Transportation Department have restricted traffic on Yellowstone Avenue from making a left-hand turn onto Bullock Road.
BEIJING (AP) — Major Asian stock markets declined Tuesday as traders looked ahead to a meeting between the American and Chinese presidents amid hopes for renewed trade talks.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — "Jeopardy!" champion and professional sports gambler James Holzhauer finished out of money in his World Series of Poker debut on Monday, a tournament official said.
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police on Monday released more than 1,000 files from the investigation into Jussie Smollett's claim he was attacked by two men, including video footage that for the first time shows the "Empire" actor with a thin, white rope wrapped around his neck that he told detecti…
NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Hicks and Giancarlo Stanton stretched the Yankees' home run streak to a record-tying 27 games, and New York beat the Toronto Blue Jays 10-8 Monday night.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran's U.N. ambassador warned Monday that the situation in the Persian Gulf is "very dangerous" and called talks with the U.S. impossible in the face of escalating sanctions and intimidation, while the U.S. envoy said the Trump administration's aim is to get Tehran back…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on "Jeopardy!" champion and professional sports gambler James Holzhauer playing at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas (all times local):
SHANGHAI, June 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon - The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced it will host the FATE (Federated AI Technology Enabler). It is a federated learning framework that fosters collabo…
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — President Jair Bolsonaro said Monday there is a "99% chance" that Rio de Janeiro will host Formula One's Brazilian Grand Prix starting in 2021 -- the latest in a battle with Sao Paulo, the current host city.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held talks Monday with leaders in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates about countering the military threat from Iran by building a broad, global coalition that includes Asian and European countries.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman's effort to protect herself from domestic violence has become a flashpoint in the debate over gun rights and victims' safety.
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — After every party it's time to clean up and Mount Everest is no different. The record number of climbers crowding the world's highest mountain this season has left a government cleanup crew grappling with how to clear away everything from abandoned tents to human wast…
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A special prosecutor was requested Monday to investigate the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer in a case that has inflamed tensions between black residents and law enforcement in the community and has roiled the Democratic presidential campaign o…
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods is no longer a defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of a drunken driver who died in a car crash.
The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 children were detained there, caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Monday she won't negotiate with Republicans who walked out to thwart landmark climate legislation, at least not until they return to the Capitol.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials have released their review on removing or changing vegetation over a huge swath of the U.S. West to stop wildfires on land used for cattle ranching, recreation and habitat for imperiled sage grouse.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Latest on a walkout by state senators in Oregon to protest climate change legislation (all times local):
POCATELLO — There are 99 Spanish-American War and Civil War veterans buried in Pocatello’s Mountain View Cemetery, but there’s a “forgotten” group that will no longer go unrecognized, if Jacquee Alvord has anything to do with it.
WASHINGTON, June 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 18, 2019, the U.S. Department of Commerce initiated several investigations to determine whether imports of Chinese hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) were circumventing the 2016 antidumping duty order on HFC blends. Since 2016, importers have begun bl…
CHICAGO, June 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) announced that Lynne M. Kirk, MD, MACP will join the organization as its Chief Accreditation Officer in September. Dr. Kirk will oversee the ACGME's specialty and subspecialty Review…
NEW YORK (AP) — The shadow of Helsinki lingers. Uncertainties about Russia's past and future election interference continue. And tensions are high over hot spots from Iran to Venezuela.
OKLAHOMA CITY, June 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The summer months should be a time for children to play with friends and enjoy their childhood. Unfortunately, for many kids across the country it is spent worrying about where their next meal will come from.
Being a member of the Pocatello City Council isn’t easy.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge has approved a settlement calling for the NFL's Rams to pay up to $24 million to personal seat license holders in St. Louis.
HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on a fatal plane crash in Hawaii (all times local):
CHEVY CHASE, Md., June 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- National 4-H Council is pleased to announce a collaborative partnership with Nationwide, one of the largest and strongest diversified insurance and financial services organizations in the United States, to build a diverse pipeline of youth lead…
FREMONT COUNTY — Fremont County Sheriffs received a call that the missing swimmer on the Teton River, Thomas Willie, has been located.
IDAHO FALLS – At approximately 9:05 a.m. on Monday, June 24, dispatch received a call for a welfare check on an adult female in her 20’s who resides at a townhome in Thayer Bridge Circle.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is meeting this week with Sept. 11 first responders following withering criticism from comedian Jon Stewart that Congress had failed to ensure that a victims' compensation fund never runs out of money.
NEW YORK (AP) — When Viola Davis started her production company nearly a decade ago, she was determined to bring about change in Hollywood with a strategic mandate: Normalize people of color on screen.
BERLIN (AP) — European officials on Monday appeared cool toward U.S. talk of building a global coalition against Iran, with the German foreign minister warning that "maximum pressure" without diplomacy increases the risks of a war and several others stressing that their priority is to de-esc…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — On one of the hottest days of the Dutch summer, Olympic long-distance swimming champion Maarten van der Weijden completed a marathon swim Monday along the route of a famous Dutch speedskating race, to raise money for cancer research.
PARIS (AP) — Lamine Diack, once one of the most influential men in Olympic sport, has been ordered to stand trial in France for his alleged role in a system of corruption, extortion and doping cover-ups during his reign at the top of athletics.
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — A historical marker has been placed near the river where two men in southern Mississippi said they were abducted by aliens in 1973.
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Despite withering criticism, charges of hypocrisy and outright rejection from the intended beneficiaries, the Trump administration is plowing ahead with a $50 billion economic proposal to aid the Palestinians and hopes it will drive a much-anticipated but unseen Mideas…
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — As the U.S. piles sanction after sanction on Iran, it's the average person who feels it the most.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Riding a wave of widespread Italian enthusiasm to be an Olympic host, Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo won the vote Monday to stage the 2026 Winter Games.
IDAHO FALLS – At approximately 9:05 a.m. on Monday, June 24, dispatch received a call for a welfare check on an adult female in her 20’s who resides at a townhome in Thayer Bridge Circle.
BOISE — The first time Deborah Escamilla was ordered to a rider treatment program in 2005, she was not successful.
With reduced counts of returning Chinook salmon over the Columbia and Snake river dams, Idaho Department of Fish and Game has pulled the plug on a summer season for the South Fork of the Salmon River.
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare officials announced that the income guidelines to qualify for the Women, Infants and Children program would increase starting July 1.
Idaho’s unemployment rate remained steady at 2.8% in May, the 18th consecutive month at or below 3%, according to the Idaho Department of Labor.
AMERICAN FALLS — From old siding, tin scraps and wooden blocks, Leroy Zimmerman assembles miniature versions of the farm equipment he and his father used to use.
MCCAMMON — The bison at the Perkins ranch have a gait, physical features, a way of interacting with people and other distinguishable traits recognizable to their owners.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping after police say he held six missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at gunpoint in his home.
CHUBBUCK — A new kidney dialysis center going up in Chubbuck will be named for a former medical employee who died in a motorcycle crash, according to Dr. Fahim Rahim, who’s building the center with his brother Naeem Rahim.
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Authorities say a black bear somehow locked itself inside a Montana home and then nestled onto a closet shelf that wasn’t too hard, wasn’t too soft, but just right for a nap.
